safe to call ngx_http_subrequest inside location handler?

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 04:03:07AM -0400, jesse wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> So according to evan miller's tutorial and nginx's own source code, it seems
> only filters can send subrequests. But I have tried to call
> ngx_http_subrequest inside my location handler, and everything seems working
> fine. I am using version 1.2.8.
> 
> Just want to ask and see if it's safe to do so.

This mostly works since 0.7.25.  There are some subtleties with 
request body handling though.

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